Twitter buys social news app Summify

Twitter has acquired Summify, a Canadian company that created one of several mobile apps that automatically scan the flood of news stories being shared across all social networks.

Terms of the deal were not announced and what Twitter will do with its latest app acquisition is unclear.

The app had been able to scan multiple sources, including Facebook and Google+, but a Summify blog said the Vancouver, B.C., company was already disabling some features, is no longer accepting new users and plans to shut down the app completely in a few weeks. A new app could be Twitter-centric.

“We are offering a more streamlined service as we transition our efforts to working at Twitter,” a company blog post said.

“Our long-term vision at Summify has always been to connect people with the most relevant news for them, in the most time efficient manner,” the blog said. “As hundreds of millions of people worldwide are signing up and consuming Twitter, we realized it’s the best platform to execute our vision at a truly global scale. Since Twitter shared this vision with us, joining the company made perfect sense.”

Summify said its team is moving to San Francisco to work out of Twitter’s offices.